skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We haven't seen all the effects of 2020. First, all these analysis are lagging indicators. Second, the poverty that started in 2020 will continue to impact lives for many years into the future.
This is all personal anecdotal, and not intended to be a real argument either way.

I have and have had internet in my house since I was 5-10. And I'd have to say: I'm still a misfit, social pariah, currently with no friends. Ironically the most respect (I mean this in the most basic sense of respect) I get from other humans is on here. But things were better when I was younger and worse now that I am 31. I'm not misremembering having more friends when I had places to go and do things in person, I definitely did. And these days I find it increasingly difficult to talk to people who have ever shrinking attention spans. Why is meme speak becoming pervasive in spoken language? Even when I call my mother she can't put down her Facebook or emails for a few minutes to talk. We used to be close. She says she has no time for anything. She's a book publisher and doesn't have time to read the one or two articles I send her every 6 months or so. Even when they are strictly about her field of work. She reads the first paragraph and says she got the "gist", which means we can't talk about it because she has no idea what the other 20 pages said, nor does she care because... well "haven't you seen the top reddit post today. I can't believe (random person) said (random comment) to (random other person)"

To me so many people have just become very boring. I mean what's worth saying/reading that takes 3-5 seconds, really? It's not that I think the internet or online social communication is all bad, or course it's not, but in my experience the bad does outweigh the good. And with suicide and depression rates rising beyond a standard deviation in gen z girls it's hard to feel as if it were worse from them in the past.
It seems to damage most people's mental health. It's crazy the sort of radicalisation going on with older people.
Within the United States, you will have a hard time finding a company with a traditional pension system. Almost all use 401(k) or similar retirement systems. If it is a scam, it is a well-supported scam.
Please explain. I thought this was the whole purpose behind hedging, was to avoid the short squeeze. Are people reneging on the purchase agreements or overpromising? How can we know these aren't naked shorts and if so, why are they still facing the short squeeze?
When I went for my test drive of a Model 3, I noted that there was a Chevy Bolt being traded in for a Model 3.
"And what if the device doesn't run javascript"

You've still got javascript requirements there on the browsing device, eating up more CPU/Memory/Battery than a straight HTML page would.
They have a large chunk of cash, they got new investors with Ryan Cohen coming onboard and are moving into an ecommerce direction + they are a familiar and established brand. The "resurrection" story here serves fuel on the brand fire. Real news is that gamestop really has turnaround potential.
The mods have a dashboard

newest link:
https://wsb.gold/public/dashboard/e65fcfcb-70a4-4d86-b7fb-88...

old link: http://104.131.48.154:3000/public/dashboard/e65fcfcb-70a4-4d...

(not available right now .. no surprise)
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Some say that would be illegal, since GME knows these prices are wrong, and thus they would be guilty of fleecing whomever buys them.

But supposedly they could make the investors sign a waiver that they acknowledge this?
Get a load of this guy with an honest job. I’m riding my GME shares to the moon :P
Haven't you gone to school? We had physics experiments in high school...
No they don't.

The toxic communities that exist have a mixture of no-clue 11 year olds with minimal parental supervision (or parental supervision that's failing) through to young adults who found a community that can reflect their feelings back.

Eg: the proana/edtwt communities are clearly children just working things out to young adults getting followings and interaction with a community. It sickens me to see a post from a 23 yr old spouting how to hide ED from your parents by doing the following... Or using subliminals to change the shape of your nose.
Yes it does. Yes I did.
The thing is, pretty much every object you work with in your programming language latches the most recently stored value in it. The machine is built on latching as a fundamental block.

A simple mutex latches open when you unlock it, and then latches locked when something locks it again.
I believe the proper distinction is "can't shoot with heat-seeking missiles". It's true that A-10 would be easy kill for the missiles, but it has legendary durability against small arms fire.
> Also, why not consider that by using the complex web of tax laws to their advantage allows them to sell products at a lower price.

Don't business taxes (whether US taxes on profits or European VAT) ignore the costs of goods?
I'm pretty sure the simplest explanation doesn't involve so many double quotes.
It's remarkable how similar this is to the previous panic over children watching television. And before that, reading comic books. And before that listening to the radio...
I've said this to loads of people, but the charging infra is 1/3 of the Tesla "killer app" EV experience.

There were (in my view) three core "problems" facing mass EV adoption that Tesla has engaged with and solved very well.

First is the perception that EVs (and their cousins/progenitors, hybrids) were slow, terribly boring cards. I think this was largely perpetuated by the rise of the Prius. Tesla solved this by building true performance cars, using the raw torque power of their EVs to assuage any concerns around performance and handling people could have.

Second is the concern around "fueling", especially on road trips. This is obviously addressed by how stupid-easy the supercharging network is to use. I don't think any other auto manufacturer will become a true competitor to Tesla until similarly extensive networks are built out by Ford, GM, etc.

Third is the paradigm-shift of the minimalist controls and the spaceship-like display. There are absolutely drawbacks to this--Mazda, for one, refuses to have touchscreens in their cars anymore due to safety concerns, and there are instances in my Model 3 where I dearly wish for a physical control. But there's something incredible about sitting in a modern vehicle and not being faced with a baffling array of buttons and dials, and having nothing between you and the road.

The combination of these makes for a stellar experience with the vehicle, and for EVs in general.
It’s an odd quirk of the average socialist/communist that they deride any individual attempting to improve the world while causing some negative economic side effects but they applaud totalitarian governments that take a stab at communism and murder millions of people in the process
I’m worried what will happen down the road. Robinhood is likely getting super valuable data on this. Combine that with correlating post activity on Reddit and you have a recipe for obliterating the arbitrage of retail investors. These hedge funds will also buy the data that Robinhood freely sells [1]. Sure, squeezes like this will still happen every so often, but on average the hedge funds will win more in the long run.

So, I think Robinhood needs to get some competitors, who charge $1-2 per month, while enforcing data privacy.

This all feels like a classic Black Swan at work, and I guess the main question is if you believe that the long term expected return justifies such risky short sells.

[1]: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/trading-app-robinhood-inv...
> In England you can change GP at any time. You don't need a reason.

This is irrelevant to what I said. I never claimed that you need to have a reason to change, rather I said that you need to "do some bureaucratic BS first", the registration.

Anyway, most GPs are not accepting new registrations due to corona :)
> Right now there appear to be curbs on GME and AMC buy orders for TD Ameritrade and Schwab customers.

Yes indeed. Ameritrade won't even let me exercise the calls I already own. It's ridiculous.
> The US left appear to be descendeding into full bore anti-conservative hysteria. This is exceptionally dangerous because when the left has taken power in the past with that kind of mentality it ended up in bloodshed on massive scales. That must not happen to America.

I wouldn't single out any particular faction on this to be honest. The Obama birther movement purportedly started in 2004 and Trump himself peddled the narrative that Obama wasn't a US Citizen. There was also the general narrative that Obama was the "Anti-Christ" and a secret Muslim.

Now you have a portion of the GOP who believe Democrats and "Hollywood elite" are harvesting children's adrenochromes in a massive paedophile ring.

Any argument that hysteria is the domain of one party is not based in fact.
The elements of justice and mercy are just more complicated than atoms but no less real.

It's like asking if atoms exist; well no they don't. Protons, neutrons, and electrons exist. But do protons and neutrons exist? Well no, but quarks do. Really? Well there's a wave-function. Oh? Well, whatever it is behaves a lot like a norm on a wave-function most of the time (away from strong gravitational fields).
Meh. It's about time this rotten house of cards started coming down.
No it isn't. You know why front running isn't illegal? Because it keeps happening and companies keep getting fined for it.

A "law" that allows you a merely pay a fine isn't a law, its a revenue-generating procedure.

Murder is illegal. You can't pay $500,000 to the authorities and then go on about your business.

For a law to have any weight, you have to be inconvenienced regardless of your financial status.
of course you don't put in money that you are not willing to loose. I bought some GME at around 40 and sold the same day at around 90. I don't have "diamond hands", as they like to say at WSB.
Do you have to install an app when you get gas from Shell or BP? No.

Also, you seem to have only picked on part of the inconvenience given that this exists:

> Like, I've waited 10 minutes before for a charge to start!

Putting a hard dependence on someone having a smart phone, and reliable internet in order to get gas or charge their car is a ludicrous step backwards in user experience compared to either the (described) Tesla experience or filling your car with gas.
I only mean to point out that 500m is quite detailed, particularly in terms of the vast scale of a star. I wasn't commenting on the relative sophistication of the models or anything like that.
Antidote https://archive.is/QaeAg
I have to ask, what compelled you to use Gentoo as your daily driver? I haven’t touched Gentoo in many years, but it was not something I would ever consider as a desktop distribution based off that experience. Has something changed?
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> saying Git was created in a weekend is like saying olympic gold medalist in 100m dash won competition in 10 seconds

Genius!!!
Anecdotally I travel frequently to rural areas in the northeast USA. We stopped recently at a truck stop for gas and lo and behold, among the semis, huge propane/oil fuel tanks and farm feed supply store, there was a Supercharging station. Keep in mind this station is hundreds of miles from any substantial city, and maybe 75 miles from a large town.
Berlin pilot project brings precision care to the peripheries
I'm sure Amazon isn't the only place that can afford to pay more, but they are definitely a great example for why our current economic system isn't fit for purpose.
The kids will be all grown up by the time the Jira interface finishes loading.

And no, I am not a Jira customer, so I am not violating that outrageous licence agreement of theirs by talking about its bad performance.
> That's not particularly nefarious.

Completely agreed! I didn't mean to give that impression at all. I was simply giving a specific recent example demonstrating GP's statement that "especially when said innovation is often possible only because of extensive public investment in research, supply chain stability, etc.".
This kind of emergent behavior is reminiscent of DDOS attacks.
> Where does the idea that people are prevented from leaving the country for private healthcare originate?

From this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25894454
>My wager would be that dollars that are currently chasing returns in the stock market may shift to wages resulting in those same dollars now trying to buy consumer goods rather than stock.

OK ... but if the money supply stays the same, then all you're doing is just shifting the demand curves from one set of products (stocks) to another (TVs?). Put anther way, some things will go up, and some things will go down because spending habits changed. This happens now. It's not inflation just because the price of roses goes up in February.
This is an empirical question (if raising minimum wage effects inflation) so what you expect in terms of inflation doesn't really matter. This isn't a philosophy question where you can imagine the answer and get a best in class result.

Since 2009 people on the Internet have been prophesizing about massive inflation and inflation has been extremely low.

Maybe they will one day be right, but like the boy who cried wolf nobody should be listening to warnings about inflation from people on the internet, as a class they don't have any idea what they are talking about.
He was responsible for Samsung's EUV development?
I imagine the postdoc would have a negative control of not adding the vector? Otherwise its hard to convince people the effect was coming from the vector.
Inequality is not a bad thing. It's actually necessary to have inequality of outcomes otherwise you have no incentives for improvement. An example of a society with very low inequality is old-school communism where most people are equally poor - it's clearly not a good thing.

What is bad is extreme inequality where a lot of people are in poverty. I think most people would agree that poverty is a bad thing that we should try to reduce.

It's quite possible for poverty to decrease and inequality to increase at the same time. The old "a rising tide lifts all boats" analogy. It just means everyone is doing better but the wealthy are seeing more relative gains. If the whole pie is growing, it's easy to see how everyone could get more pie even if it's not distributed equally.

edit If you disagree please state why. Drive by downvotes do not convince me that I'm mistaken, they just lower my opinion of the average HN user.
I'm going to guess it doesn't- as the supercharging network is a closed platform which is a problem for any vehicle other than a Tesla
It should be noted that is is a US only/mostly story. A fair analogy is Uber - dominant in US and some other markets, but clear loser in China, India, Africa and many European markets
This emergent behavior seems a lot like DDOS, but in the stock market.
I'm really shocked that other manufacturers haven't invested in more infrastructure. Toyota and Honda pushed hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for years, they could have easily accelerated adoption of the tech by investing in refueling infrastructure. Now all that money they invested in fuel cell cars looks to be wasted as they both are playing catchup with battery electric vehicles, mostly because of Tesla.
It's a little misleading, though it compliments the A-10.

The A-10 was designed knowing it was going to get shot at and take hits. It doesn't have the speed other craft do, though it was somewhat underestimated just how many hits it'd take. All of those redundancies and protections are designed to protect the pilot and save the aircraft. However, an A-10 doesn't have to be shot down in order to be considered a "mission loss", which is what would happen. A damaged aircraft is no longer mission effective, as the pilot is now focusing everything on keeping it airworthy and getting it back to base. So as one of the other posters indicated, while many wern't a total lost, many were damaged, and either had to abort or cut short their mission as a result. From a sortie effectiveness perspective, that's the same result as a downed plane.
https://baloogancampaign.com/2015/02/02/10-future-us-close-a...
Isn't this basically discrimination? Job is job. Even if you are 13 years old your should be paid the same for similar results. Instead of subsiding via parents.
This make it better for those unlucky youth to help themselves.
value of a stock is what the market dictates is the value of the stock, not what an analyst wants the price to be. It is laughable to say that Hedges were using purely "fundamentals" for the past 10 years.

Were people in the financial services worried about retail investors when Melvin was shorting GME into the ground at $5 a share? Intentional manipulation to quickly bankrupt a company. How about with the 2000s derivatives bubble?

The only thing they are worried about is that they are getting the shitty other side of the game they made for the first time.
I think that's reasonable feedback. We need to do a better job explaining Pro vs Open Source. Our guiding philosophy was Open Source is the best cache database we can make. Pro is the best database and with that comes more grown up features you don't find in a cache.
Being around for thousands of years has zero bearing on whether something is good or bad. It can speak to relative safety. In all the thousands of years, there has yet to be a single death that can be attributed directly to cannabis (and I don't count "marijuana-related visits" to hospitals where regardless of which ailment a person has, if they test positive for cannabis it becomes a "marijuana-related visit", nor do I count deaths where a person just happened to have smoked beforehand).
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The Norwegian branch of Circle K seems to be interested, and they have put up a charging points at some of their locations.

I've never tried the charging point at Circle K though, they might be usable or they might not, at least they look like they are looked after and not physical broken.

But after trying some of the other brand of chargers, I've largely given up on using any non Tesla fast charger. I will use non Tesla ones in a pinch. But if I do, my expectation is worse user experience, slower charging and more expensive, which does seem like somewhat of a bad deal.
Sure. I didn't want to turn my quick comment into an off-the-cuff analysis of the actual complexity behind "billionaires should give away their money." :) I know in practice that's easier said than done, although I also know that in practice it's still doable. MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos's ex-wife, provides a reasonable example here. (There are also probably a thousand think pieces one could write about just what it "means" that she is, apparently, the richest woman on earth almost entirely because she divorced the second-richest man on earth.)

I will slightly disagree with characterizing Musk's linked tweet as "doing what you're asking the money for", only because "intended" is a bit nebulous; he could be spending a lot of money solving problems now rather than merely "intending" to do so. (One could argue that his companies are all intended to solve problems, to be sure, but that gets way more nebulous really fast.)
Here is a good article on what non Tesla owners face, not just I convince but often higher charges. The final take...

" As I wrote in my review, the Mustang Mach-E is one impressive EV, one that stands tall against the Tesla Model Y in most competitive measures. But Tesla’s foresight and investment in its own proprietary network remains a key competitive advantage, right up there with its edge in electric efficiency and range"

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/12/24/2021-ford-mustang-mach-e...
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> One individual sitting at $31M currently on a $50k investment.

What happens when one tries to cash out this kind of position? Does he or she actually walk away with $31M?
I am more than happy to read ads if the app wasn't so awful.

If HN was to (say) show me ads for various programming-y things I wouldn't be all that bothered as long as the core UX wasn't ruined.

Reddit's tech feels like a Jockey who's lost control of his horse
I think it makes sense for them to be decoupled on some level, but maybe not totally.

The danger on one side is falling into a sort of hedonic treadmill issue where the poverty level defines a standard of living that is so generous that it ceases to be a measurement of hardship. The danger on the other side is fixing the poverty level at some static level that doesn't take into consideration inflation and other changes to the environment that people actually live their lives in.
The real punching bag in our country is probably poor, minority single mothers.
If there are 5mm people below the poverty line and they all make $1 under the limit then you can close the gap, and reduce the poverty rate to 0 by giving each person a dollar.

If they are all making $10 below the limit then you can evenly distribute the money and reduce the gap by 10% while keeping the poverty rate the same. Or you can give all of the money to only 10% of the population and reduce the poverty rate by 10% while the gap remains the same.
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It's less about the size of the church and more about the % of the church's untaxed revenue that is spent on salaries and mostly-single-use worship space. Plenty of small churches spend almost all of their revenue on pastoral salary and workship space. It's fine, to each their own, but treating that sort of tithing the same way we treat donations to actual charities seems weird. Both Ikea and non-charitable $ spent by churches should be taxes.

TBH though, it's not 1800. we should stop (not) taxing based on institution type and start (not) taxing based on where the dollars are going. This would solve lots of problems in the non-profit world (including IKEA and churches).
But let's not kid ourselves here - a lot of WSB users are trading under the pretense that this is some great class war against the "elite".

Here's what's going to happen, in the end (my predictions):

- Some institutional investors will make an absolute killing

- Some retail investors will make a killing

- A bunch will make fast'n easy gains

- A good share of retail investors will stand holding the bag.

Sure, some short sellers / funds will lose their shirts, if they can't come up with the funds - but it's not the end for those managers. They'll continue to get work, and continue to short companies they think are on the way down.

In the end, the "evil" hedge funds will walk out as the winners.
Just because you want a call doesn't mean everyone else does.

I'd much rather have an app notify me than an automated phone call, I (and most people I know) probably wouldn't even pick it up.

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I can uninstall an app, I can't ungive someone my phone number.
Axiom Space names first private crew to launch to space station
By now we need to do both, there is already too much carbon in the atmosphere. If you look at the IPCC projections, 1.5°C is only achievable with carbon capture of some sorts [0] (if at all). Research and development for this has to be pushed yesterday.

Though word is in the air that the previous assessments might have been very optimistic.. although that will probably only be discussed in 2022 when the 6th assessment report is to be published. Which presses the issue only further.

[0] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM3...